No friend but the mountains : writing from Manus Prison

Boochani, Behrouz (author.). Tofighian, Omid, (translator.).

Summary: "Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man."--From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard FlanaganIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia.He has been there ever since.This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend But the Mountains is an extraordinary account--one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.

Record details

ISBN: 9781487008000
ISBN: 1487008007
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (13 hr., 5 min., 2 sec.)) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Toronto : Anansi Audio, 2019.
Copyright: ℗2019.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Richard Flanagan, Thomas Keneally, Sarah Dale, Isobelle Carmody, Geoffrey Robertson, Benjamin Law, Omid Tofighian, Yumi Stynes, Janet Galbraith and Mathilda Imlah.
Language Note:	Translated from the Farsi.
Awards Note:	Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Victorian Prize for Literature 2019. Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction Book Award 2019. Winner Australian Book Industry Award / General Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019.
Source of Description Note:	Hard copy version record.